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1.380 BOARD OF DIRECTOR REMOVAL
The Board may remove any Director under the following conditions:
(1) The removal of a Director shall be for cause, which may include, but is not limited to, the following examples:
(a) Director failing to perform basic responsibilities, or doing so improperly;
(b) Director failing to act in accordance with the Board’s governing standards;
(c) Director failing to comply with the Director’s fiduciary obligations;
(d) Director’s inappropriate and intentional disclosure of confidential information;
(e) Director’s intentional violation of any IHSA by-law, rule, regulation, standard or policy;
(f) Director causing another to intentionally violate any IHSA by-law, rule, regulation, standards or policy;
(g) Director intentionally engaging in conduct that is deemed by the Board to be detrimental to the IHSA; and
(h) Director engaging in or having engaged in action which could be considered to constitute criminal misconduct.
Before a Director is removed for cause, the Board must be satisfied that the acts of the Director posed for removal are more than mere mistakes, more than negligence.
(2) Removal shall be by a two-thirds (2/3) vote of all Directors then in office, excluding the Director proposed for removal.
(3) Removal may occur at any regular or special meeting of the Board, provided that a Statement of the Reason(s) shall be been
mailed by Registered Mail to the Board of Directors, including the Director proposed for removal, at least thirty (30) days
before any final action is taken by the Board of Directors.
(4) The Statement of Reason(s) shall be accompanied by a Notice of the time when and the place where the Board of Directors
is to take action on the removal.
(5) The Director proposed for removal shall first be given an opportunity to be heard at the time and place mentioned in the
Notice, after which the Board of Directors, excluding the Director proposed for removal, shall consider the matter and take a vote.
1.400 POWERS AND DUTIES OF BOARD
1.410 QUORUM
A majority of the Board of Directors shall constitute a quorum. When a vote is taken upon any matter pending before the Board, a quorum being present, a majority of the votes of the members of the Board voting on the matter shall determine the outcome thereof.
1.420 AUTHORITY
The officers and members of the Board of Directors of the Illinois High School Association are hereby authorized to interpret the Constitution and By-laws and to exercise all the powers and duties expressed or implied in this Constitution and By-laws, and to act as an administrative board in the interpretation of and final decision on all questions and appeals arising from the directing of interscholastic activities of member schools.
1.430 PROVIDE EMPLOYEES
The Board of Directors shall conduct all business of the Association, shall be empowered to employ an Executive Director with such assistants as may be found necessary to carry on the affairs of the Association, and to provide office facilities, by rental, purchase or other means, and employees for the proper conduct of the business of the Association.
1.440 FINANCIAL STRUCTURE AND MANAGEMENT 1.441 DUES AND ASSESSMENTS
The Board of Directors shall be authorized to collect annual dues as provided in this Constitution and levy entry fees and such other assessments on all schools participating in any interscholastic activity as shall be adequate to meet the total expenses involved in the conduct of such activity and such proportionate share of overhead as is deemed necessary. Such dues and assessments shall be considered current funds of the Association and shall be used by the Board of Directors in financing the various activities of the Association.
The determination and collection of all activity fees and the collection and final distribution of receipts from all contests sponsored by the Association shall be left to the discretion of the Board of Directors.
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